Saturday, March 5th, 2022
Saying “control system” makes this sound
fancier than it is.
We mean it in the simplest sense, like how your thermostat is a control system.
The temperature dropping makes your heater turn on, which makes the temperature rise, which makes your heater turn off.
Slightly fancier is if the heater dials itself up gradually... »
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Previously on the blog, we pitched a particular framing of Beeminder in which
paying is not punishment.
People seem into it!
Which is good because it was setting the stage for this announcement:
We’ve killed the old
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
UPDATE: See follow-up post announcing
No-Excuses Mode.
An under-appreciated fact about Beeminder is that it doesn’t force you to do anything.
It just puts prices on things and you continue to do whatever you feel like doing, factoring in those prices.
Just like you might buy... »
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
This is still pie-in-the-sky philosophical navel-gazing but it makes me very happy.
Not just because I love pie-in-the-sky philosophical navel-gazing
(we could say Product Vision if we wanted to sound more respectable)
but because a couple years ago this sounded preposterously theoretical and fantastical and now it sounds inevitable and kind of obvious.
We are making steady progress... »
Monday, December 27th, 2021
Announcement! Beeminder and Focusmate are officially integration partners!
Beeminder’s
Support Czar, Nicky, is here to tell you about it!
See also the announcement on Focusmate’s blog as well as the
... »
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
Earlier this year we completed a lovely Beeminder book club to read behavioral scientist Katy Milkman’s new book,
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
This is adapted from a
forum post which was adapted from a daily beemail
which was adapted from a fiftieth of
Brent Yorgey’s
brilliant,
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Friday, November 12th, 2021
We are overdue for a blog post about using Beeminder for school and studying.
In the very early days of Beeminder, we had a brilliant guest post from Gandalf Saxe when he was a wee undergrad.
Now he’s an engineer at Apple, working on Siri.
We’re going to go ahead... »
Saturday, October 30th, 2021
This is part 2 of our two-part series on loss aversion.
Previously
we explained loss aversion and how it’s distinct from the endowment effect. Here we (as Beeminder) disavow loss aversion as a tool for behavior change.
This isn’t like
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2021
This is part 1 of a two-part series.
First we explain loss aversion and how it’s distinct from the endowment effect.
(Spoiler: loss aversion is a generalization of the endowment effect.)
Asking Google how those things are different currently yields a fog of opaque logorrhea, so we hope this is... »